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President Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said on Friday that it is recommended that people receiving COVID-19 boosters stick to the same vaccine they previously received. “It's generally recommended that you get the booster, that is the original regimen that you got in the first place. But for one reason or other - and there may be different circumstances for people - availability or just different personal choices - you can, as we say, mix and match,” Fauci said on CNN’s “New Day.” “And those are the data that were discussed and were acted upon yesterday, that you can...

Vietnam's health ministry will offer the coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech as a second dose option for people first inoculated with the Moderna vaccine, state media reported on Wednesday (Sept 8). The ministry had approved the mixed regimen, which is due to low supplies of the Moderna vaccine.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital said Tuesday they are allowing patients who received Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine to get a second shot produced by either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna. J&J recipients can make a special request to get a “supplemental dose” of an mRNA vaccine, city health officials said in a statement to CNBC, declining to call the second shots “boosters.” J&J’s vaccine requires only one dose and recipients are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the shot.